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Old July 10th 19, 10:28 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Zaidy036[_5_]
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Default two files of the same name in the same directory

On 7/9/2019 11:39 PM, Paul wrote:
micky wrote:
Watching my older brother work, connected by TeamViewer, I could see
that he's made a lot of progress.
His typing is pretty fast, considering he never was taught touch typing
and didn't have to type anything until he was 65 or 70 or more.Â* He's 79
now.
And he uses the End key, and Gmail, etc.
But yesterday he was applying for spot as an espert witness, for a
trial, and they had a version of his resume with an incorrect phone
number.


I dl'd Everything and found his resume, and it showed two files of the
same name in the same directory.Â*Â* But with different dates.Â* Both of
them his resume.
Now how can that be?Â*Â*Â* I looked for tiny dots that might change the
name, but I couldn't find one.Â*Â* Running win10 on a laptop fwiw.


I know he didn't want to wait 30 minutes or more while i investigated,
so I renamed the older one -old, which went smoothly, so it wasn't a
phontom file, because otherwise I wouldn't know which one I was going to
send to the expert witness "broker", and used the webform to
include/submit the newer one, whose date in February was the right date,
he said.


The next time this happens, try the following.

Â*Â* everything.exe -create-filelist output.txt "C:"

Â*Â* # Wait 20 seconds or so for the stat() calls to finish...

Â*Â* notepad output.txt

Each filename should be delimited with double-quote characters.
If anything has an extra space, you should be able to see it
in the CSV style listing.

The reason double-quotes are used, is because commas are actually
legal in filenames, and in a CSV format, that would be "deadly"
for parsing. But the usage by tools, of double-quotes around
filenames with commas in them, is also "a bitch". Try and
write a script to parse that properly some time.

But for visual examination in Notepad, that should work a treat.

Â*Â* Paul


Wouldn't "Copy as Path" and paste results into Notepad or CMD window be
easier?

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